Three women charged in home invasion of Taunton man

Charles Winokoor

Friday

Apr 22, 2011 at 12:01 AMApr 22, 2011 at 10:03 PM

It was three against one, and he lost.

It took some sorting out by police, but in the end three women, two from Raynham and the other from Stoughton, were charged early Thursday morning with home invasion, battery and armed robbery of a Taunton man.

It was three against one, and he lost.

It took some sorting out by police, but in the end three women, two from Raynham and the other from Stoughton, were charged early Thursday morning with home invasion, battery and armed robbery of a Taunton man.

Kim De Lellis, 46, of 73 Canton St., Stoughton, not only was intoxicated and extremely uncooperative, according to police, but she allegedly threatened to call her Stoughton police detective uncle to tell him how unhappy she was with the way Taunton cops were treating her.

Police report that just before midnight, they responded to a complaint of three women refusing to leave 17 Charles St. and fighting with a second-floor male tenant. When cops arrived, they say they were confronted by a tipsy and agitated De Lellis.

The other two women, 25-year-old Jessica Moore and 26-year-old Lindsey Marie Taylor, both of 433 Britton St., Raynham, had already fled, according to police.

De Lellis — who reportedly emitted a strong odor of alcohol, was unsteady on her feet and had a cut on one of her cheeks — repeatedly tried walking away from cops and screamed at them when they tried questioning her.

She was taken to the ground and cuffed when police say they saw something shiny in her hand and were concerned she might be holding a weapon.

De Lellis, police said, refused to put her hands behind her back, demanded the “complete name and department” of the arresting officer, and then made reference to her uncle and the fact that she has “a good lawyer.”

After being taken to police headquarters, she allegedly refused to cooperate during the booking procedure, again asked for the name (which police said was provided to her) of the arresting officer and demanded to be taken to Morton Hospital.

Police said they were able to piece together a storyline after speaking to the 33-year-old male victim on the second floor, who although he didn’t require hospitalization, was somewhat worse for the wear after tangling with De Lellis, Moore and Taylor.

What became an all-out attack, he told police, stemmed from the fact that Moore two weeks earlier had handed him her EBT welfare card so he could use the remaining $60 cash balance.

The victim told cops he spent $40 for various purchases at a store on Cedar Street but on the next day discovered that further access to the card had been cut off.
Since then, he told cops, he’d been receiving harassing calls from Moore telling him he owed her $60.

When he heard a knock and opened his apartment door late Wednesday night expecting his girlfriend, police said he was surprised to find Moore, Taylor and De Lellis standing there.

After being told they were not welcome, Taylor allegedly told the vicitm, “We’re not leaving without blood or money.”

The victim told police that “the old, drunk woman,” De Lellis, tossed a large glass bottle of Seagrams VO Canadian whiskey at him but missed, instead hitting Moore.

Moore reportedly then picked up the bottle and hit the man in the back while Taylor tried holding him down. The victim said he next caught sight of Moore going through his kitchen drawer, as if looking for a knife.

Instead, she came toward him, he said, “in a threatening manner” with a yellow-and-black screwdriver in her hand.

He told police he somehow managed to wrest the screwdriver away from Moore but while doing so was smacked in the back with a stove-burner grate by either De Lellis or Taylor.

The brawl then worked its way into the living room, during which time the victim said he was pummeled by the trio.

De Lellis allegedly then punched him in the face holding a set of keys with individual keys protruding between her fingers, as one would do with brass knuckles, he said.

Then Moore clocked him in the head with a table lamp, at which point, he told police, he became dizzy and “started seeing stars.”

Falling onto a couch, he reportedly said one of the women lifted his $250 Sony from its TV stand and threw it at him, but that it fell short and hit the floor.

The three attackers allegedly then let loose a torrent of blows while he was lying on the couch in a defensive position.

At least one of them, he added, began to rip out from each of his ears two “diamond-studded” earrings, reportedly worth $7 apiece.

That was when he began to “scream for his life,” which woke up his parents on the first floor, cops said.

The victim’s mother later told police she heard her son screaming for help and ran upstairs while her husband called 911. When she entered her son’s apartment, De Lellis allegedly charged towards the woman and shoved her, nearly pushing her down the stairs.

It was only when her son’s girlfriend arrived that the three marauders exited the scene, she said.

Police charged De Lellis with home invasion, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, malicious destruction of property over $250, armed robbery, assault and battery, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.

She was arraigned Thursday in Taunton District Court and held on $10,000 bail.
Police arrested Moore and Taylor after catching up with them at their Raynham residence.

Both women were charged with home invasion, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, armed robbery, malicious destruction of property over $250 and assault and battery.

At their arraignment in Taunton District Court, Moore was held on $1,000 cash bail and Taylor held on $10,000 bail.

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